Awning.



No. 63|,065. I Patented Aug. l5', |899.

J. DELUHIEUX.

AWNING.

(Application led July 25, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN DELCRIEUX, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO ALBINE TOULOUSE, OF GOLDEN GATE, CALIFORNIA.

AWNING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 631,065, dated August 15, 1899. Application filed July 25, 1898. Serial No. 686,834. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN DELoRIEUx, acitizen ofthe United States of America, and a resident of the city and county of San Francisco, in the State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Awnings, of which the following is a specication.

Myimprovements relate to the mechanism employed for working the frame of a crankawning. It is the common practice when setting up an awning of this class to place the lower gears, to which the crank is applied, in a box or bracket that is bolted or rigidly secured to the building Where the awning is set up. This method of attaching the box or bracket holding the gears may answer when there are no obstructions to prevent the free turning of the crank; but when the box or bracket is to lie close to a pillar or to a projecting wall it becomes a difficult task to attach the same so that the crank can be properly inserted and turned in it. Blocks of irregular forms and various contrivances have then to be used to bring out the box or bracket in the required position, and the like are more or less unsightly and generally objectionable, because of the extra work entailed and additional expense involved in putting them up and other reasons. Again, when that part of the awning-frame which carries the cloth is to be placed onl a cornice or other portion of a building that stands out and the box or bracket for the gears, on the contrary, has to be placed farther back on the wall of the building in the ordinary way the cloth cannot be rolled and unrolled with a single upright shaft, and consequently recourse is had in such cases to divided shafts and universal joints, which are harder and more costly to make and adjust than single shafts and are never so satisfactory. It is therefore the object of myinvention to provide an improved device for holding the lower gears of awnings that is so constructed and applied that it will cure the above-noted defects, which are inherent to the construction and mode of attachment of the ordinary box or bracket used for the same purpose.

The object aforesaid is attained by means of the device illustrated in the drawings hereto annexed, to which reference is had for a detailed description of my improvements.

Figure l of the said drawings is a sectional elevation showing my improved device in an upright position. Fig. 2 is a detailed perspective view of a bracket and rotary piece used in connection with the box that holds the awning-gears. Fig. 3 is a broken perspective View of the gear-box inverted. Fig. 4. is an elevation, partly broken and in section, of the gear-box, taken in a position at right angles to that represented in Fig. l. Fig. 5 is an elevation illustrating the device applied to a building having a cornice and projecting wall, which both would interfere with the placing of the ordinary box or bracket for awning-gears. Fig. 6 is a plan showing also a section of building with projecting wall close to which my improved device is applied.

Similar parts are indicated by similar letters of reference in all said figures.

A represents a box open at its upper end, in which are placed miter-gears B B2 and a ratchet-wheel and pawl C C2, employed for turning the lower end of the vertical shaft D of a crank-awning. The box A is provided with a cap or top A2, having a central hole through which the vertical shaftD enters. The said shaft has its bearing in the bottom of the box A, where its lower end is fitted in a socket A3. I make the miter-gear B and the ratchet-wheel4 C in one piece, forming the same with a hub or sleeve E, through which the shaft D passes and which is firmly secured to said shaft by a set-screw F, so that all these parts will rotate together. The other miter-gear B2, which meshes with the gear B, has a socket-piece B2 formed on it, that is fitted in a bearing A4 on the side of the box A and in which is inserted the crank G, that works the awning. The pawl C2, that engages the teeth of the ratchet-wheel C, is placed in a recess A5 in the cap A2, in which it slides vertically. It is a gravity-pawl and whenever desired is lifted out of engagement with thev teeth of the ratchet-wheel by means of a pin (not shown) that is adapted to be slipped through a hole A6 in the top A2 and enter an upwardly-daring hole C3 in said pawl. The

hole Cs is made ilarin T u ward in a similar D IOO r the bracket and drawn down by a nut L2.

manner on both sides of the pawl, so that the latter can be reversed and will allow the ratchet-wheel to be turned either way,thereby enabling it to work the awning either right or left, as may be found more convenient.

The box A aforesaid, with the parts thereto appertaining, is mounted on a bracket H, which is rigidly secured by bolts .I to the wall of the building where the awning is set up, as at K, Figs. l and 5. The bolts J are passed through holes H2, made in the wall-plate of the bracket, as shown in Fig. 2. The bottom of the box Ais made so it may rest either directly or indirectly on the sole of the bracket I-I, and it is secured in position thereon by a stud L, screwed into it from the under side and passing through a hole H3 in the sole of A washer L8 is placed between the nut L2 and the under side of the sole of the bracket H; but this is not indispensable.

It will now be observed that the box A is not fixed in any way to the wall of the building in accordance with the common practice, but only to its supporting-bracket H, and, furthermore, that it can be turned easily about a vertical axis on the latter, so that it can be adjusted in any desired v position thereon, and the crank-socket B3 can be set at any convenient angle with relation to the building. Consequentlyif the position of the awning on the building is such that the box A, containing the lower gears thereof, has to be placed close to a projecting wall in the manner represented in Figs. 5 and 6, where ordinarily there would be no room for the crank to turn in, as indicated by the dotted lines in the figure last named, it is a simple matter to turn the box A so as to bring the cranksocket to one side and have it lie in the proper position to allow the free insertion and turning of the crank, as the full lines in said Fig. G indicate. To turn the box A on its support requires merely the loosening of the nut L2, which is tightened after the box has been adjusted in place.v When the nut L2 is tightened, it draws down the stud L and operates to pull down the box A andclamp it or secure it rigidly on its supporting-base in the position it has been set in.

In addition to being adjustable horizontally about a vertical axis in the manner above described, the box A is also made so that it can be inclined vertically at any suitable angle in order to permit the use of an oblique shaft for working the awning-such, for instance, as is illustrated in Fig. 5 of the drawings hereto annexed. It matters not, then, if the awning is placed on a cornice or other projecting part of a building and the gear-box is located in a different plane farther back. The vertical shaft D will then run directly from the lower gears inclosed in the box A to the upper gears M and no divided shafts nor universal joints need be used, as already stated. I accomplish this by making the hole H3 in the sole of the bracket H fairly large, so that the stud L can pass obliquely through it to suit the inclination to be given to the box A,'with the gears in it, and the vertical shaftD connected thereto, and by using a wedge-shaped washer L4 in the place of the straight washer L3 previously mentioned. The washer L4 is shown in full lines in Fig. 5 and in dotted lines -in Fig. 1. It will be seen that this washerbears squarely against the underside of the bracket H and at the same time affords an inclined surface for the nut L2 to bear on as it itself becomes inclined with the stud L. The box A can thus be secured in an inclined vertical position as Well as adjusted horizontally on the bracket H with the use of a simplel stud, nut, and washer; but to make it work more smoothly and perfectly I provide it also with a bearing-piece N, on which it rests. This piece N is made quadrangular and with beveled ends N2 and is placed so as to lie flat in a circular recess H4 in the sole of the bracket H, said recess having a downwardlyinclined edge H5, against which the ends N2 bear. The bearing-piece N is also hollowed out or made concave in one direction, as at N3, and has a central hole N4 of suitable size to allow the stud L to pass through. The box A, on the other hand, is made convex at the bottom at A2, where it is to bear on the bearing-piece N, so as to fit the concave portion thereof. the holes H2 and N4 and screws into the hole As provided in the bottom of the box. (See Figs. 1, 2, and 3.) Arranged in this way the -box can be turned around freely with the bearthe combination of a support, a gear-holder on said support and adapted to be inclined relative to said support, a shaft havingbearing in said gear-holder and adapted to be inclined therewith, means for securing said gear-holder in its adjusted positions, operating-gears for said shaft carried by said gearholder, and operating means for said gears, substantially as described.

2. In a crank awning, the combination with an awning-operating shaft, and operating-gears therefor, of a support adapted to be secured to a window-frame or the like, a gearholder containing said gears adapted to be inclined vertically, and means for holding said gear-holder at adjusted inclinations, substantially as described.

3. Ina crank-awning, the combination With an awning-operating shaft, and operatinggears therefor, of a support, a gear-holder containing said gears vertically rotatable and adapted to be vertically inclined on said support and means for holding said gear-holder The stud L then passes through i 8ol i l ICO IIO

in its adjusted positions, substantially as described.

4. In a device of the nature specied, the combination of a bracket adapted to be secured to a Window-frame or the like, a gearholder on said bracket and rotatable thereon, a shaft having a portion in said holder substantially in the axis of rotation of said holder, and means for holding the holder on the bracket and securingit in adjusted positions comprisinga stud passing through said holder and bracket and a nut on said stud, substantially as described.

5. In a device of the nature specified, the combination of a fixed bracket, a gear-holder angularly adjustable thereon, a stud secured to the holder and passing freely through the bracket, a nut on said stud, and a Wedgeshaped Washer between the bracket and the nut and on which the nut bears, substantially as described.

6. A mechanism for operating crank-awnings comprising a bracket, a gear-holder rotatable on said bracket, means for clamping said holder in adjusted positions on the bracket, a shaft entering the same, aratchetwheel and bevel-gear having a common hub adj ustably secured to the shaft,another bevelgear adapted to be turned by a crank and meshing with the rst-named bevel-gear, and a pawl engaging the ratchet-Wheel, substantially as described.

7. A mechanism for operating crank-awnings comprising a suitable holder, a shaft entering the same, a ratchet-Wheel secured to the shaft Within the holder, means for turning the shaft, and a reversible pawl also located within the holder and engaging the ratchet-Wheel, said paWl having a hole upwardly flaring on each side of the paWl through which a pin can be passed to raise it from either side, substantially as and for the purpose described.

8. The combination of a bracket, a gearholder rotatably adjustable on said bracket, gears therein, a shaft operated by said gears, one of said gears having a crank-attaching portion, and means for clamping the holder in its adjusted positions on said bracket.

9. The combination of a fixed bracket, a gear holder rotatably adjustable ou said bracket, gears in said holder, one of said gears having means for attaching a crank, a shaft operated by said gears, abolt passing through said holder and. bracket and a nut on said boit for clamping said holder in adjusted positions on the bracket.

10. A device of the nature specified consisting of a suitable holder, gears therein, a shaft Worked by said gears, a fixed support for the holder, an intermediate bearing-piece between the holder audits support, and means for clamping the holder and intermediate piece to the support, substantially as and for the purpose described.

11. A device of the nature specied consistin g of a box havinga convex bottom, gears therein, a shaft connected with said gears, a bracket, a concave bearing-piece for the convex bottom of the box, placed on the bracket, a stud passing through the bracket the bear ing-piece and the box,a Wedge-shaped Washer, and a nut, substantially as and for the puri pose described.

Signed by me, at San Francisco, California, this 2d day of July, 1898.

JOI-IN DELORIEUX. [L s] lViinesses: l

A. H. STE. MARIE, HENRY P. TRicoU. 

